GRAHAM'S BLOG

Dear Poetry Friends LIVE Tuesday 3 June 2025, 630pm, Brendon Books, Bath Place, Taunton, Somerset. AUDEN IN AMERICA I was writing my poetry memoir Being There earlier this year when one morning the Auden chapter fell apart in two: one Auden spending his … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends Saturday 23 November 2024, 7pm St Mary’s Church, 2 Elsworthy Road, Primrose Hill, London NW3 3DU REFLECTING DEEPLY IN AN AGE OF ANXIETY a concert of piano music and poetry with Robin Rubenstein and Graham Fawcett As … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends LIVE Saturday 23 November 2024, 7pm St Mary’s Church, 2 Elsworthy Road, Primrose Hill, London NW3 3DU REFLECTING DEEPLY IN AN AGE OF ANXIETY a concert of piano music and poetry with Robin Rubenstein and Graham Fawcett … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends NOVEMBER LIVE Saturday 23 November 2024, 7pm St Mary’s Church, 2 Elsworthy Road, Primrose Hill, London NW3 3DU REFLECTING DEEPLY IN AN AGE OF ANXIETY a concert of piano music and poetry with Robin Rubenstein and Graham … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends LIVE  Sunday September 8th, 2024 – 11am to 1pm POETS AND WRITERS OF HAMPSTEAD WALK A walk starting from outside Keats House and following paths through semi-rural Hampstead past houses and settings which provide marvellous opportunities to … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends            MARCH TO JULY 2024 NEWSLETTER LIVE  Sunday March 24th, 1000am till 12 noon POETS AND WRITERS OF BLOOMSBURY WALK Spanning the centuries from street to street, we will pass front doors once familiar to Robert Browning, … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends LIVETuesday November 21st, 630pm, Brendon Books, Taunton, SomersetKALEVALA In 1989 Graham Fawcett went to Helsinki for Radio 3 to interview Sibelius’s biographer Erik Tawaststjerna about Sibelius works directly inspired by the Finnish national epic poem, Kalevala. These … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends        JANUARY TO MARCH LIVE Starting Wednesday January 11th in Mayfair LOOK HERE UPON THIS PICTURE How Shakespeare’s Plays Have Been Inspirational For Painters TEN WEDNESDAY MORNING LECTURES IN MAYFAIR (nearest tube stations Green Park, Hyde Park … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends LIVE LECTURES IN TAUNTON AND LONDON NOVEMBER TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2022 AT 630PM TAUNTON LITERARY FESTIVAL 2022    ANNA AKHMATOVA “A fascinating lecture. People were enthralled and totally engaged”. (Irena Hill, Akhmatova Night in Greenwich) “Splendid and gripping”. … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends September to November 2022 Newsletter Live Lectures and a Writing Retreat Out West and a Weekly Online Course for Everywhere Dorset, Somerset and online are the three locations for these summer-into-autumn events. In each case you’ll find … Read More